A PSLV rocket body that was launched on the 12th September, 2001, from Satish Dhawan Space Centre for the Kalpana-1 (MetSat-1) satellite mission is predicted to re-enter the Earths atmosphere on the 9th May, 2012 @ 09:30 GMT ± 48 hours.PSLV RB
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Title: VLT Suzaku observations of the Fermi pulsar PSR J1028-5819 Authors: R. P. Mignani (MSSL-UCL, Kepler Institute of Astronomy, University of Zielona Gora), M. Razzano (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Pisa, Dipartimento di Fisica "E. Fermi", Universita' di Pisa, and San...
Title: The Refractive Index of Silicon at Gamma Ray Energies Authors: D. Habs, M.M Günther, M. Jentschel, W. Urban The index of refraction n(E_gamma)=1+delta(E_gamma)+ibeta(E_gamma) is split into a real part delta and an absorptive part beta. The absorptive part has the three well-known contr...
Augustin-Jean Fresnel (1788-1827), was a French engineer who contributed significantly to the establishment of the theory of wave optics. Fresnel studied the behaviour of light both theoretically and experimentally. Read more
NASA to Hold News Conference on Dawn Mission Results NASA will host a news conference on Thursday, May 10, at 11 a.m. PDT (2 p.m. EDT) to present a new analysis of the giant asteroid Vesta using data from the agency's Dawn spacecraft. The event will be held at NASA Headquarters in Washington, broa...
New Zealand International Science Festival, 30 June to 8 July 2012 Prof. Alice Roberts, popular BBC presenter and professor of public engagement in science at the University of Birmingham, will attend this years eighth New Zealand International Science Festival. After making her television d...
The 1877 Iquique earthquake occurred at 21:16 local time on 9 May (0:59 on 10 May UTC). It had a magnitude of 8.5 on the surface wave magnitude scale. Read more
India's earth observation capabilities are set to get a boost with the launch of indigenously-developed RISAT-1 early next year. The satellite will be launched in the first half of the next year, ISRO chairman K Radhakrishnan said today while delivering the IGNOU silver jubilee lecture here, add...
Oldest Astronomical Instruments Discovered in China A few pieces of "lacquerware of unknown names" unearthed 35 years ago from a tomb of the Western Han Dynasty in Fuyang City, Anhui Province, are found to be a gnomon with template and an equatorial device for the positional measureme...
A cyclops, in Greek mythology and later Roman mythology, was a member of a primordial race of giants, each with a single eye in the middle of his forehead. The name is widely thought to mean "circle-eyed". Another possible origin for the Cyclops legend, advanced by the palaeontologist Ot...
Howard Carter (9 May 1874 - 2 March 1939) was an English archaeologist and Egyptologist, noted as a primary discoverer of the tomb of Tutankhamun. Read more
A simple and reliable method for converting one of the simplest chemical entities into one of the most difficult-to-make molecular building blocks of life, with complete control over its shape, is reported by scientists at the University of Bristol in this weeks Nature. It will have major implica...
Orbital elements:
2012 GB5 Earth MOID = 0.0413 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
M 332.06227 (2000.0) P Q
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a 2.1305391 Node 197.62674 -0.94807952 -0.01791543
e 0.5748257 Incl. 5.15969 -0.31788333 +0.02271717
P 3.11 H 23.8 G 0...
Orbital elements:
2012 HM8 Earth MOID = 0.0180 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
M 346.23311 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.20892508 Peri. 179.21964 -0.47996504 +0.87595192
a 2.8128225 Node 62.09607 -0.80519202 -0.41795198
e 0.6335726 Incl. 3.13901 -0.34828060 -0.24088250
P 4.72 H 23.9 G 0...
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